15-07-23 A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. We owe a lot to dark matter - it is the thing keeping galaxies, stars, our solar system, and our bodies intact. Yet no one has been able t...

14-12-23 Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the quantum world previously considered distinct are different manifestations of the same thin...

14-09-16 The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what's called the Copenhagen i...

14-06-24 For the first time, scientists from the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have succeeded in finding evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions（费密子） . Previously, the Higgs particle could only be detec...

14-04-15 Some 2 to 5 percent of all international trade involves counterfeit（假冒的） goods, according to a 2013 United Nations report. These illicit products -- which include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts, pharmaceuticals, and food -- can pose...

14-04-09 Materials scientists have long known that introducing defects into three-dimensional materials can improve their mechanical and electronic properties. Now a new Northwestern study finds how defects affect two-dimensional crystalline（水晶般的） stru...

13-07-26 Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe called the Van Allen radiation belts. Scientists knew tha...

12-08-14 Gamma-ray photons（光子） seen emanating（放射） from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing（有趣的） possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating（消灭） each other in space, according to research submitte...